Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was funny though , when I went to get on the scales everybody went phew |
| 2 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 3 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 4 | ‘ My wife noticed when I started practising on the lounge carpet after Sunday lunch that I was also behind my arms . |
| 5 | Ask them : What was the most surprising thing that happened to you when you started working on the buses/in the shop/in the hospital/in the school ? |
| 6 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 7 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 8 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 9 | But something had happened when she 'd touched on the subject of Tony . |
| 10 | When she went to check on the order she found the shop , A Baker , The Walk , Ipswich , had closed down . |
| 11 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 12 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 13 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 14 | To earlier when they 'd turned on the TV ? |
| 15 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 16 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 17 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |
| 18 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |